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EU Pushes to Limit Internet Speech
minamar writes "CNN is reporting that at an international conference, the EU is urging the US and other nations to ban racist and 'hate' messages from the internet. The US seems to be resisting, but is this another step away from free speech and how could an international group possibly regulate message on the internet anyway?"
George W. Bush sends Chirac an email stating- "I hate the French!"
Fuck the EU.
What part of "European Union" don't you understand?
Those guys are intolerant to intolerancy, so those thoughts should be banned by themselves.
A sticking point was whether the United States, which has championed nearly unfettered free speech, would line up with European countries that have banned racist or anti-Semitic speech in public.
In order to do this, you'd have to repeal the First Amendment. And in order to do that, you'd have to repeal the Second Amendment.
It's just not going to happen, people.
Just wanted to say that befor it is illegal.
"God fights on the side with the best artillery." - Napoleon, Marshal of France - speaking truth to power
Very intelligent remark -- even the spelling is correct! O thanks ever so much for your contribution to this discourse.
Those Gay Nazi half-breed Nigger Europeans will only take my hate speech when they pry my tongue from my cold dead body
I'm reposting this because I have Karma to burn, and some nit-wit mods can't take a joke. Do your worst.
Moneyed corporations, non-working 'poor' and criminal prisoners are turning productive citizens into tax-slaves.
...send over heavily armed U.S. Army reservists to 'befriend' the members of a foreign country with an alien culture and language. What could go wrong?
which are far right, further right and KKK
It is unlikely that anybody will understand what you are saying. I can't decide whether it's worse if you did or did not use the preview button
Using the holy grail of OSes...
As opposed to, say, France - where you have to show a Big Mac to get a whole nation in a panic.
Perhaps, but I hear that they're rather partial to a Royale with cheese.
"The international group" can regulate speech by putting my cock in their mouth.
-- I was raised on the command line, bitch
Indeed. Hell, I can't even remember what happened on November 9.
Face it: fighting and dying for freedoms is neither acceptable nor effective anymore, and it is becoming less so.
Translation: I am a spineless tool of tyranny, and you should be, too. Everyone else is doing it.